A Theory of Justice: Original EditionHarvard University Press, 31. mar. 2005 - 624 sider John Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition—justice as fairness—and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. “Each person,” writes Rawls, “possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.” Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls’s theory is as powerful today as it was when first published. |
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... accepted . The concept of the original position , as I shall refer to it , is that of the most philosophically favored interpretation of this initial choice situation for the purposes of a theory of justice . But how are we to decide ...
... accept . Or if we do not , then perhaps we can be persuaded to do so by philosophical reflection . Each aspect of the contractual situation can be given supporting grounds . Thus what we shall do is to collect together into one ...
... accept in advance a principle of equal liberty and they do this without a knowledge of their more particular ends . They implicitly agree , therefore , to conform their conceptions of their good to what the principles of justice require ...
... accept . From the standpoint of moral philosophy , the best account of a person's sense of justice is not the one which fits his judgments prior to his examining any conception of justice , but rather the one which matches his judgments ...
... accept its principles ; we may even find them odious and unjust . But they are principles of justice in the sense ... accepted in the society and that institutions are impartially and consistently administered by judges and other ...